Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!watmath!mks!andy From: andy@mks.UUCP (Andy Toy) Newsgroups: ont.general Subject: Re: Highway Driving Rules Message-ID: <780@mks.UUCP> Date: 17 Apr 89 20:14:37 GMT References: <8904061731.AA21685@ellesmere.csri.toronto.edu> <9111@watcgl.waterloo.edu> <1647@dciem.dciem.dnd.ca> <5822@watdcsu.waterloo.edu> <3098@looking.UUCP> Reply-To: andy@mks.UUCP (Andy Toy) Distribution: ont Organization: Mortice Kern Systems, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada Lines: 34 In article <3098@looking.UUCP> brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton) writes: You may think it's cute when a you're blocking the left lane to slow down to re-insert yourself, and I suppose it is the right thing to do if you're unwilling to do anything else. .....[stuff deleted] I hate the drivers who drive 100 kph who come up upon a driver going 99 kph, so they figure what they should do is go into the left lane at 100 kph, take 2 minutes to pass the guy, and then move right. This is wrong, and a serious hazard to traffic safety. Yes, as far as I understand it, the law says you are permitted and supposed to exceed the limit to pass. If you're not a driver who goes at normal left lane speed, you are passing, so get with it. Sounds correct and I agree with you, but the law doesn't permit you to exceed the speed limit when you are not passing so I guess you should be passing all the time if you want to go fast :-) Really, this is only useful if you are passing cars going much slower than the speed limit since you would never catch up to cars going at the speed limit if you are going the speed limit too. I guess you could always use slower cars for a sling-shot effect to catch up to those other cars :-) Brad is right about passing cars. You must do it quickly and safely. None of this slow?! passing. I just hate to see one of these 1 mph passers who has created a line of 15 cars behind him, all in the name of "traffic safety." For my next question, why is it that these guys are always wearing hats? Because they have cold heads? -- Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Internet: mks!andy@watmath.UWaterloo.ca 35 King Street North, Waterloo, UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!andy Ontario, CANADA N2J 2W9 CompuServe: 73260,1043 Phone: 519/884-2251 FAX: 519/884-8861 BIX: join mks